Serendipity

Sometimes the planets align just right so that your life is full of doom and catastrophe.  That has unfortunately happened a lot to me over the last few years.  Fortunately, the planets get it right occasionally and something cool happens.

Late - very late - last night, I was relisting and re-tagging all my items on Etsy.  I noticed, in the process, that my shop had a new Heart and with so few at this stage, every new Etsy Heart gets me a little excited!  Of course I checked who it was.

I was enchanted to find a seller with a plethora of such wonderful vintage Avon perfume bottles as this little beauty, exactly the same as I had when I were a wee-un.  This brought back a flood of memories about all the Avon products that littered my childhood. 

There was the scarecrow brooch with openable head that contained a solid fragrance, the perfume bottles that doubled as oil lamps and not forgetting of course the strawberry lip balm that tasted so good that I did actually bite off chunks and eat it.  Out of the blue, I can still smell wafts of the fragranced soaps that sat on my dressing table until I moved out of home.

At the same time I was about to contact her about said reverie, I received a message from her praising one of my listed items.

Then today, I discover she featured some more of my items on her blog in this blog post about the joy of girly creations.

I love the internet. Where else can you find a mutual admiration society at midnight on a Saturday that doesnt invlove 100 cigarettes and a bottle of tequila?

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Belated Happy Earth Day to Me!

It is probably quite remiss of me to not even know that Earth Day has been around for 40 years.  How did I manage to miss that?

Repurposing, re-using, thrift-shopping, up-cycling: they have all been a major part of my existence since I was a baby.  New clothes were not just a treat, they were a miracle.  We didnt have a colour tv in our house until 1983, hence I had to watch The Royal Wedding in black and white and have never quite recovered.  Every tv set we had until then was an ancient b&w number that came from the local rubbish dump in various states of disrepair.

It is not really any surprise then that now I have returned to my dressmaking roots, those roots are well and truly grounded in the thrifting ethos of my childhood.  What IS a surprise, an enormous, huge, OMG I AM DOING A LITTLE DANCE kind of surprise, is that Etsy includes me -ME! - in their Etsy Daily Finds email celebrating Earth Day and the crafters that practice repurposing in their work.

I would like to thank the Academy,  the OpShop around the corner from my house and my sewing teacher in Year 8 who showed me how to sew on ruffles.

Baby Ruffle Pants/Diaper Covers in repurposed fabric, Size 12-24M.  US$15.00

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